EPCOT Central

Dear Mr. Fitzgerald, I read last week that you are taking over the creative direction of EPCOT, and I know I am not the first to write an open letter to you, delivered via the Internet. ...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2014/05/an-open-letter-to-tom-fitzgerald.html

With all the incredible advances in learning more about the alien world beneath our feet, every day it seems more and more of a shame that EPCOT only offers up cartoon fish and singing stingr...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2013/08/did-you-sea-this-news.html

At the D23 Expo last week, a frenzied festival of corporate control and spin, there was this discovery: How did Disney allow this to escape?  Or this? What on Spaceship Earth was someo...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2013/08/why-epcot-lost-its-way.html

Yes, I know ... it's been a while since I've posted, thanks to business travel and all sorts of other distractions.  But with the recent rumors floating fast and furious that Phineas and Ferb wi...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-best-epcot.html

Thinking back to my last post about the cost of admission to a Disney theme park and the decision by Disney to spend more than $1 billion on a marketing system to track guests (rather than o...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-high-cost-of-disney-living.html

Let's talk about money for a minute. Three decades ago, Disney built EPCOT Center for $1 billion, and the cost of a one-day pass to EPCOT Center or The Magic Kingdom was $15, a 13% increase...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2013/06/money-money-money.html

Memorial Day may be past, but it still seems an appropriate time to remember some of the best aspects of a bygone EPCOT Center.  Although many have suggested that the goal is to "turn EPCOT into...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2013/05/memories-of-epcot-center.html

Here's what a visitor to EPCOT Center would see today: * A Universe of Energy attraction that hasn't been updated in 18 years, despite the remarkable advances in alternative energy and eve...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2013/05/beating-disney-at-its-own-game-again.html

Sorry.  I know this is long overdue.  I started this post three weeks ago and then, well, life happened. All is well, except for the little matter of being so envious of Hong Kong Disney...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2013/05/all-manor-of-envy.html

Just when I think I might love EPCOT Center a little too much, I run across something like this absolutely extraordinary site that contains the most informative, fascinating explorations of t...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-we-might-have-met-world.html

Thanks to the urging of several readers, EPCOT Central is now on Twitter, joining the masses of people who somehow have figured out ways to express themselves in 140 characters or less! While ...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-21st-century-begins-for-epcot.html

This breaks my heart. It is stunning technology.  There's no better place than EPCOT to apply such a remarkable display of ingenuity.  It is incredible to witness. And it's so utterly ...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2013/04/stunning-incredible-heartbreaking.html

In the three and a half years since the last EPCOT Central post, a lot has happened.  More than a quarter of a million people have visited EPCOT Central, a number that's just staggering to m...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-disney-blew-its-second-biggest-brand.html

You'll be missed.

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2009/12/farewell-uncle-roy.html

For a while now, EPCOT Central has been meaning to share this letter from a reader. If Disney executives don't trust ardent Disney lovers who maintain blogs to give them some real perspective ...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2009/12/moms-thoughts-on-epcot.html

Here's a shocker to those who say EPCOT Central wants to turn Disney's most ambitious theme park into a shrine to the 1980s: Bringing "Captain EO" back to EPCOT would be a bad idea. A really...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2009/11/captain-oh-no.html

Scientists today announced unbelievable discoveries deep in the oceans of our own planet . "Until now, scientifically inconceivable. Yet there." It's a stark reminder, as The Living Seas at E...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2009/11/two-miles-deep-in-that-darkness-amazing.html

How could Disney get something so spectacularly wrong, so consistently? Put simply: Innoventions is awful. Making the problem even more fascinating: It shouldn't be. As Disney demonstrated...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2009/11/epcot-what-doesnt_19.html

Take equal parts Pirates of the Caribbean and Peter Pan's Flight, mix with EPCOT Center's original mission, stir gently, and bake at Walt Disney Imagineering for a few years ... and you've got ...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2009/11/epcot-what-works.html

"When I was 6, EPCOT was so boring to me. I'm glad they changed it." "I may not care for Nemo, but my 5-year-old loves it." "When my teenagers go to EPCOT, they're bored silly and want to l...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2009/11/not-for-children-only-and-thats-ok.html

Longtime readers know that there's a difference of opinion among some EPCOT Central followers -- while some believe the views expressed here are constructive thoughts reflecting on how EPCOT co...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2009/11/epcot-what-doesnt.html

EPCOT "works" splendidly. Except, that is, when it doesn't. So, from time to time, EPCOT Central will explore aspects of EPCOT that fulfill the vision of this grandest of all theme parks ......

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2009/10/epcot-what-works.html

A hundred miles southwest of EPCOT, it's happening. Even as Disney continues portraying an outdated "vision" of our world's energy needs, even as it virtually ignores the realities of the past...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2009/10/meanwhile-down-road.html

It was a surprise to walk up to The Land pavilion at EPCOT recently and discover that Nestle was no longer the presenting sponsor. The Seas With Nemo and Friends has a beautiful VIP lounge (co...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2009/10/presented-by-no-one.html

I understand from reading a front-page story in yesterday's New York Times that you're encouraging Disney Consumer Products to "dream bigger" and that you're helping guide a massive overhaul of ...

http://epcot82.blogspot.com/2009/10/dear-steve-jobs.html